Joule’s Brewery has acquired land to build a flagship Brewery Taphouse which sits next to the Trent and Mersey canal where it passes through Stone town centre in Staffordshire.
Stone is where Francis Joules established the second of the Joule’s breweries in 1779, having moved from Salford, and the company grew to occupy vast parts of the town.
The plot, known as Crown Wharf, was a part of the original Joule’s Brewery warehouse operation when the company exported Stone Ales from Liverpool docks around world. Joule’s was the first English beer to be exported to the United States, ahead of its rival Bass.
Steve Nuttall, Director at Joule’s, commented, ‘This acquisition provides us with an opportunity to embrace the Joule’s story and return the brand to Stone with some style. Our Joule’s boardroom will once again be located in Stone where the story all began. We also intend to establish a full Brewery Taphouse by the canal.
'This will be the first pub we have built from the ground up, it is daunting for a small company like ours and we know we need to be bold if we are to embody the spirit of Stone and embrace our brewing heritage, we simply cannot get this wrong, scary and exciting in equal measure and now we have bought the site there is no going back.’
